One of the biggest concerns for a wiki administrator is that a spam bot will start editing pages on his or her wiki, loading them with spam.
We have seen earlier in the book that certain developers create add-ons for MediaWiki called extensions. These extensions greatly increase what we can do with MediaWiki. One important extension deals specifically with MediaWiki security—Bad Behavior. This extension helps prevent spammers by blocking spam bots, preventing e-mail scraping, and helping prevent against vandalism. We are going to install this extension to help secure our site.
1. Download the Bad Behavior extension from http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/download/. Make sure to save the file where you can locate it.
2. Move the contents of the file
bad-behavior.2.x.xx.zip
to the MediaWikiextensions
folder on your server. You can do this using your FTP program (using ASCII mode), where you would have to unzip the file first, and then move them to the...